Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, said that “there will be only the OCU in Ukraine” — the country “should have the only Ukrainian canonical church.”

“Let’s get it right. The UOC does not want a dialogue, but wants to remain an element of Russian influence on Ukrainian statehood, they want the Ukrainian state not to regulate what they do in any way, so that the Ukrainian state is weak, which they will internally constantly provoke and pump.

Today we have a unique chance when everything could be cured quickly and painlessly during the first 3-6 months of the war. Then it was possible to simply clean up many of these physically.

Today it’s a little more difficult. But that doesn’t mean “impossible”. And today we are legally motivated to walk quite hard along this path.

Once again, there should be the only Ukrainian canonical church in Ukraine. By the way, Bartholomew, the Patriarch of Constantinople, constantly speaks about this, clearly stating that the ROC is also to blame. Obviously, if the ROC, then the UOC-MP is also to blame for Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine…,” the adviser said.